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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51160	The spirit of calumny and slander, examin'd, chastis'd, and expos'd, in a letter to a malicious libeller more particularly address'd to Mr. George Ridpath, newsmonger, near St. Martins in the Fields : containing some animadversions on his scurrilous pamphlets, published by him against the kings, Parliaments, laws, nobility and clergy of Scotland : together with a short account of Presbyterian principles and consequential practices.	Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?; S. W.	1693 (1693)	Wing M2446; ESTC R4040	71,379	106

manifest lye with a witness there is no place left to suppose I made use of any method for returning to my Office which I never left far less such impious and silly ones as he says and would have believed I did and are not worth the mentioning being such as I fancy no man on Earth though of less heigth of Natural Temper than I and almost of equal Villany with the scurrilous Author could be guilty of but was it not a Lucky thing that this mettled Spark charged me not with the Criminous Sins of Bestiality Incest and Sorceries Certainly he had not failed of it if they had not been Vertues peculiar to the Saintship of one of his Friends who was publickly burnt betwixt Edinburgh and Leith upon consession of the foresaid Crimes in my sight and some thousands besides In some other part he charges me with Robbing of a thousand Marks Scots mony from William Carfrey who came to pay me my Stipend due by the Town of Edinburgh I shall never think it worth my Pains to offer a Justification of my self from so ridiculous a Story the young man lives still in the City and is so Just and Honest to declare to some of my acquaintance that it is a most notorious Lye but Innocence it self cannot be secure against hellish Impudence There is one thing more in his Paper not worth the minding indeed which I had almost forgot viz. That I was at the time of his Writing a Vagabond at London if a Man must be branded with this Character for going from one place to another he has been much longer a Vagabond than I as I am told and I am sure for his bloody uncharitableness deserves the mark of a second Cain and the Character of another Accuser of the Brethren having been made very skilful in the Art of Lying by his Father who has used it since the beginning I leave this Letter intirely to your disposal I ask your pardon for this trouble and am with all respect Sir Your affectionate faithful humble Servant Andrew Cant. Edinburgh July 29. 1693. THE next Certificate is in favours of Dr. Alexander Monro and it serves the end for which it is publish'd You say that when he was in Scotland he was so and so accus'd as is narrated in the following Certificate If this had been true there is no doubt to be made but that Persons of Honour Sense and Interest in the Cities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews would have heard of it especially since he was preferr'd to such places as would provoke Rivals and Competitors And is it to be believ'd that the least surmise of that Nature could have escaped the Industry of the Presbyterians who scrupled not to pretend to the knowledge of his very Thoughts without any external Evidence I have often told you that Negatives in a Matter of Fact are not otherwise to be prov'd 'T is no wonder that so malicious an Accuser should mistake Truth for Falshhood and Falshood for Truth when you have not yet attain'd to so much Sense as to distinguish between an Affirmative and a Negative Proposition You are firmly resolv'd to defame and disparage the Episcopal Clergy at any rate and that hath occasion'd the following Evidence of your Candor and Veracity Whereas Dr. Alexander Monro late Principal of Edinburgh College is said in an impertinent Libel Entituled A Continuation of the Answer to the Scotch-Presbyterian-Eloquence to have been accused when he was in Scotland of being found with a Woman among the Corn We whose names are under written living in and near to the City of Edinburgh do by these presents declare upon Honor and Conscience that we never heard that he was so accused and that if any such Accusation had ever been invented against him We think it very probable that we would have heard of it especially since so narrow an inquisition has been made into his Life and Actions in the beginning of the Late Revolution when for Non-Complyance he was turned out of the College of Edinburgh Sic Subscribitur W. Binning Sir William Binning of Wallinford late Lord Provost of Edinburgh J. Dick. Sir James Dick of Priest-field late Lord Provost of Edinburgh Tho. Kennedy Sir Thomas Kennedie of Kirk-Hill late Lord Provost of Edinburgh John Marjoribanks Late Bailiff of Edinburgh Ja. Henryson Writer to the Signet there John Baillie Apothecary and Chirurgeon there Robert Clerk Apothecary and Chirurgeon there A. Skene Alexander Skene D. D. Late Provost of the old College in the University of St. Andrews Ri. Waddell Richard Waddell D. D. Late Arch-Deacon of St. Andrews A. Macleod Mr. Alexander Macleod Advocate James Flemyeng Sir James Flemyeng of Ratho-byres late Lord Provost of Edinburgh A. Balfour Sir Andrew Balfour Doctor of Medicine Ar. Stevenson Sir Archibald Stevensone Doctor of Medicine Will. Monipenny Mr. William Monipenny Advocate T. Skene Mr. Thomas Skene Advocate C. Gray Mr. Charles Gray Advocate Al. Craufurd Mr. Alexander Craufurd Advocate Jo. Mackenzie Mr. John Mackenzie one of the Clerks of Session Du. Mackintoshe Late Bailiff in Edinburgh Aen. Macleod Town-Clerk J. Wedderburn Mr. John Wedderburn Clerk of the Bills Al. Gibson One of the Clerks of the Session Mr. Ridpath I Would have gladly taken leave of you long before now but that I am not left at liberty as to the following Letter It is occasioned by your own Civilities to the Archbishop of Glasgow and others We oppose the Publick Records of the Nation to your Clamorous and Obscene Libels and if there were nothing else to prove the madness of your Temper than that one Story of Margaret Paterson we need no other proof to convince the World of your desperate Impudence A Letter from a Gentleman in Scotland to his Friend in London Edinburgh July 22. 1693. Sir I Had not yours till last Night which lets you see that it hath been a month by the way and this is the true Reason your return is so late As to that silly Varlet Ridpath all I can say of him more than yours to me contains which I know to be most exact Truth is that being apprehended and made Prisoner here about Christmas 1680 for contriving and writing a Bond of Combination or kind of Association for burning the Pope in Effigie which you know was a folly never before that time attempted here and was design'd then by the Rogues of this City particularly the Presbyterians as an indignity to his then Royal Highness This Bond being found in the custody of this Villain by the diligence of the Learned and Reverend Dr. Cant then Principal of King James his University of Edinburg who though he was a Celebrated Champion for the Protestant Church yet had he a just indignation against all Rabbling and Tumults This Bond I say is now in the Council Office and I have often seen and read it 'T is indeed a young League and Covenant containing a Clause of Mutual Defence not excepting the King or any in Authority under

some years ago But what alled you at My Lord St. Andrews pointing at him with his Finger Answer My Lord Commissioner the grievous Oppression and horrid Bloodshed of my Brethren and the eager pursuit after my own as appeareth this day to your Grace and to all his Majesties Honourable Privy Council After which he commanded to take me away that they might see what to do next with me The Second is the shooting of the Shot intended against the Bishop of St. Andrews whereby the Bishop of Orknay was hurt to which I answered My Lord Chancellor in private viz. that I looked on him to be the main Instigater of all the Oppression and Bloodshed of my Brethren that followed thereupon and the continual pursuing after my own and my Lord as it was credibly reported to us the Truth of which your Lordship knows better than we that he kept up his Majesties Letter inhibiting any more Blood upon that Account until the last Six was execute And I being a Soldier not having Laid down Arms but being still upon my own Defence and having no other End nor Quarrel at any Man but according to my apprehension of him that as I hope in Sincerity with fixing either my Sense or Action upon the Covenant it self as it may be understood by the many thousands of the Faithful besides the Prosecution of the Ends of the same Covenant which was and in that point the Overthrow of Prelates and Prelacy and I being a declared Enemy to him on that account and he to me in like manner So I never found my self obliged either by the Law of God or Nature to set a Centry at his Door for his Safety but as he was always to take his Advantage as it appeareth so I of him to take any Opportunity offered Moreover we being in no Terms of Capitulation but on the contrait I by his Instigation being excluded from all Grace and Favour thought it my Duty to pursue him at all occasions Also My Lord Sir William Sharp making his Apology anent his unhandsome and cheating way taken He took me under pretence to have spoken with me about some other Matters I not knowing him until five or six of his Brothers and his Servants were laying fast hold on me they being armed of purpose desired I would excuse him seeing what he had done was upon his Brothers account which excuse I easily admitted seeing that he thought himself obliged to do what he did to me without Law or Order in behalf of his Brother much more was I obliged to do what I did in behalf of many Brethren whose Oppression was so great and whose Blood he caused to be shed in such abundance Moreover he persisting in his Bloody Murthers as witnesseth the wounding of Mr. Bruce at his taking by his Emissaries some few days before that fell out concerning himself Now if by any means in taking him away I could have put a stop to the then currant Persecution Thus far I have truly resumed what passed But this Answer to the second part of the Inditement may be thought by some to be a step out of my ordinary way wherefore I shall offer to your Consideration that passage Deut. 23. 9. wherein it is manifest that the Seducer or Inticer to worship a false God is to be put to death by the Hand of those whom he seeks to turn away from the Lord especially by the Hand of the Witnesses whereof I am one as it appeareth Deut. 13. which Precept I humbly take to be Moral and not merely Judicial and that it is not at all Ceremonial or Levitical And as every moral Precept is universal as to the extent of Place so also as to the extent of Time and Persons Upon which Command Sir I think that Phinehas acted in taking away the Midianitish Whore and killed him whom she had seduced Num. 25. 8. Also Elijah by virtue of that Precept gave Commandment to the People to destroy Baals Priests contrary to the Command of the seducing Magistrate who was not only remiss and negligent in executing Justice but became a Protector and Defender of the Seducers Then and in that Case I suppose it is the Christians Duty not to be very dark Moreover we see that the People of Israel 2 Chron. 31. 1. destroyed Idolatry not only in Judah wherein the King concurred but in Israel and in Manasseh where the King himself was an Idolater And surely what all the People was bound to do by the Law of God every one was bound to do it to the uttermost of their power and capacity And as it was in Zach. 13. 3. There the Seducer's Father and Mother shall put them to death I take this to be meant of the Christian Magistrate but when he is withdrawn by the Seducer from the Exercise of Office and Duty and is become utterly remiss and negligent in putting the Seducer to death according to God's express Law which is not to be expected of him for then he should do Justice upon himself but is become a Protector and Defender of the Idolater then I doubt not but that it doth become the Duty of every Christian to the uttermost of his power and capacity to destroy and cut off both Idolatry and Idolaters Yea these presumptuously murthering Prelates ought to be called so by the Avenger of Blood when he meeteth them by the express Commandment of God seeing the thing is manifestly true and not to have liberty to flee to such Cities of Refuge as the vain Pretext of Lawful Authority But they should be taken from the Horns of such Altars and be put to death Moreover was it spoken concerning Amalek upon the account he designed and resolved the Extirpation of the Lords People and Truth which are his Throne upon which he put forth his Hand and because he took occasion against them Exod. 17. 14. Num. 24. 20. he endeavoured God should not have a People to serve him according to his Revealed Will upon Earth And if he could have effectuate his Design there should none have lived who would not have worshiped and served him and his Idol Gods And for the better effectuating his Design he took occasion against them when they were wearied coming out of Aegypt Deut. 25. 17 18. and the Reason there annexed is he feared not God And because I know that the Bishops both will and do say that what they did against the Lords People whom they murthered they did it by Law and Authority but what I did was contrary to both I answer the King himself and all the Estates of the Land and every individual person of the Land both were and are obliged by the Oath of God upon them to have by Force of Arms extirpated the perjured Prelates and Prelacy and in doing thereof to have defended their Lives and Fortunes the Covenants being engaged to on these Terms viz. after Supplications Remonstrances Protestations and all other Lawful Means have been used now for that